CPython's Unicode implementation includes an ascii flag (here), which indicates that all character values are less than 128 (note that 1 byte kind can be up to 256). This flag enables significant ...

Portable ASCII and Unicode string manipulation functions for C++. To use this library, simply include the following files in your project: utf.h (main header file) utf.cpp (main source file) ...

Unicode outpaces ASCII for encoding Web site text, and life gets easier for Google and others that grapple with an increasingly international Internet.

This is a byte-oriented encoding which retains compatibility with original 7-bit ASCII, but (like post-1996 Unicode) suffers the curse of variable length characters to cope with Your Foreign.

If you’ve ever heard someone complaining that “this system doesn’t support double-byte characters”, or asking whether “this data’s in Unicode”, and felt as though you really ought to understand what ...

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that string ...

Try specifying UTF-16 as your encoding, rather than converting to ANSI. Although UTF-8 encoded English text is equivalent to the ANSI version, XML files are expected to be unicode.